Newly-elected governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, has in a recent interview stated reasons why the people of Ekiti state voted him back to power. He maintained that he has an unfinished business to do in the state.
Fayemi who stated this on Channels Television’s News at 10, also claimed there has been “arrested development” in the last four years under Governor Ayodele Fayose.
The former Minister of Solid Minerals also revealed why he is returning to power, noting that “there is unfinished business” in the Ekiti Government House.
“On a national level, this victory means that the propaganda out there about our party (APC) being a party of trialists and people who are just interested in a section of the country is not selling to ordinary Nigerian,
“This victory means, at the Ekiti State level, a determination by our people to really have governance on a serious level back in Ekiti State. That’s why the people have shown fate, by returning us to power’’. He said.
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In what he meant by “unfinished business”, Fayemi he explained that his return to the seat of power as Ekiti State governor is to continue developmental projects in the state from where he stopped.
“I already explained that there is unfinished business. The clock of progress and development in Ekiti stopped in October 2014. (My) coming back is to restart the clock and get it back to the developmental trajectory. What we have witnessed in Ekiti in the last four years is arrested development.
“It is a return to decency, decorum and dignity. A return to a sense of self-worth and self-respect. A return to respect for our elders and traditional institution. It is a return to seriousness in government.
“When I say reclaiming the land, it is not just about the physical reclamation of any land, it is about the reclamation and restoration of the values of our people’’. He said.